§ 50-301.29h — General requirements of carrier-for-hire companies.

District of Columbia § 50-301.29h

• Jurisdiction: District of Columbia
• Title 50: Motor and Non-Motor Vehicles and Traffic.
• Ch. 3: Regulation of Taxicabs.
• Subch. I: General.

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(a) A carrier-for-hire company shall:

(1) Create an application process for an individual to register as a carrier-for-hire operator;

(2) Maintain an up-to-date registry of each carrier-for-hire operator ("operator") and vehicle associated with the carrier-for-hire company;

(3) Require an operator to verify the vehicle the operator is using to make deliveries while logged into the company's delivery dispatch;

(4) Register as a carrier-for-hire company with the DFHV, and submit to the Department for the purposes of registration:

(A) Proof that the carrier-for-hire company is licensed to do business in the District and, if applicable, registered pursuant to § 48-655 and § 25-130 ;

(B) Proof that the carrier-for-hire company maintains a registered agent in the District;

(C) An illustration or photograph of trade dress established by the company, as required by § 50-301.29k ; and

(D) A written description of how the carrier-for-hire company's delivery dispatch operates;

(5) No later than January 5, 2026, register to the DFHV and the District Department of Transportation the following information in a format and frequency approved by the Director:

(A) The total number of operators that utilized the company's delivery dispatch in the District;

(B) A log of anonymized data relating to deliveries, which shall include the following categories of information for each delivery originating or terminating inside of the District:

(i) The latitude and longitude of where each delivery originated and terminated, calculated to 3 decimal degrees;

(ii) The date and time of request, pick-up, and drop-off;

(iii) The delivery mode by class (Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, or Class 4) used by the carrier-for-hire operator; and

(iv) The total miles driven, including both while en route to a pick-up point and while en route to a drop-off point, in the District by operators that utilized the carrier-for-hire company's delivery dispatch;

(C) Any additional trip data that the DFHV or DDOT deems necessary for inclusion as set forth in rules adopted by the Mayor; provided, that such rules specify that such trip data shall be anonymized and may be used only for the purposes of public safety, congestion management, and transportation planning, including curbside management, road improvements, traffic management, transit service planning, and the allocation of public monies for those purposes; and

(A) Establish a policy of zero tolerance for the use of alcohol or illegal drugs or being impaired by the use of alcohol or drugs while a carrier-for-hire operator is logged into a carrier-for-hire company's delivery dispatch;

(B) Immediately suspend, for the duration of the investigation conducted pursuant to subparagraph (C) of this paragraph, a carrier-for-hire operator upon receiving a written complaint from a customer submitted through regular mail or electronic means containing a reasonable allegation that the operator violated the policy of zero tolerance established by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph; and

(C) Conduct an investigation when a customer alleges that a carrier-for-hire operator violated the policy of zero tolerance established by paragraph (A) of this subparagraph.

(b) The Mayor may request additional relevant information from a carrier-for-hire company pertaining to any delivery referenced in a Metropolitan Police Department police report, provided that the report references one or more incidents alleged to have occurred during the time that a carrier-for-hire operator was performing a delivery in the District.

(c) Any information that is received pursuant to subsection (a)(5) of this section shall be deemed confidential and shall:

(1) Be exempt from disclosure pursuant to § 2-532 ;

(2) Be safely and securely stored by the District, and the District shall take all reasonable measures and efforts to protect, secure, and, when appropriate, encrypt or limit access to any data provided; and

(3) Not include the personal information of customers or carrier-for-hire operators that utilized the delivery dispatch services of the carrier-for-hire company.

(d) The Mayor, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 , may issue rules to govern the sharing or publishing of conclusions and analysis derived from information that is received pursuant to this section; provided, that the conclusions and analysis shared shall not contain the original information that is received from a carrier-for-hire company by the District pursuant to this section and any such shared or published data derived from the information that is received by the District pursuant to this section shall be anonymized and aggregated across all carrier-for-hire companies.

Legislative History

Mar. 25, 1986, D.C. Law 6-97, § 20j-8